The most prominent departed from the world in 2021
2021 saw the departures of Prince Philip, Desmond Tutu, Charlie Watts and Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
The following is a summary of the most prominent departed people in the world in 2021.
January 16 - Phil Spector (81 years): An American music producer who worked with international singers and bands, most notably "The Beatles" and revolutionized pop music with what was known as the "sound wall" effects. He died in prison, where he was serving a sentence for murder.
23- Larry King (87 years): The king of interviews and star of American audio-visual media. He spent more than 60 years behind the radio, and his program, which ran from 1985 to 2010 on CNN, became a mandatory passage for political officials and celebrities.
February 05 - Christopher Plummer (91 years old): Canadian actor, the movie "The Sound of Music" made his debut. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for "Beginners."
08- Jean-Claude Carrier (89 years): A French screenwriter with about 60 scripts in his credit, in addition to about 80 books, and he worked alongside film directors, including Luis Buñuel and Milos Forman.
10. Larry Flint (78 years): founder of a pornography media empire and founder of Hussler magazine.
14- Carlos Menem (90 years old): A former president of Argentina ideologically defines himself as a Peronist, a movement based on the politics and legacy of former President Juan Peron.
22- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (101 years old): An American poet who was one of the most prominent faces of American poetry during the twentieth century, in addition to being a publisher and bookshop.
24- Philippe Jacotier (95 years): French-speaking Swiss poet, translator and literary critic.
March 02 - Bunny Wheeler, 73, is a Jamaican singer and percussionist who is a legend in reggae music.
08- Jibril Tamsir Nyani (89 years old): a prominent Guinean thinker and historian.
09- James Lawrence Levine, 77, music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, has been the subject of "harassment" and "sexual abusive behavior" lawsuits.
April 09 - Prince Philip, 99: Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth for more than 73 years.
09- Earl Simmons (50 years old): American rapper known as "DMX".
14- Bernard Madoff (82 years old): He is behind the largest financial fraud in history, worth tens of billions of dollars.
He died in a North Carolina prison where he was serving a 150-year sentence.
20- Idriss Deby (68 years): President of Chad since 1991. He was wounded at the front during a confrontation with rebels the day after his sixth re-election.
24- Albert Elbaz (59 years old): An American-Israeli fashion designer who headed the Lanvin Group for 14 years until 2015.
24- Christa Ludwig (93 years old): an opera singer who won the French Legion of Honor in 2010 for her career that spanned nearly half a decade.
Jun 04 - Richard Earnest (87 years old): One of the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 1991 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
17- Kenneth Kunda (97 years): nicknamed "African Gandhi" for his adoption of the non-violent movement to gain the independence of Zambia, which he headed between 1964 and 1991.
30- Donald Rumsfeld (88 years): US Secretary of Defense during the era of George W. Bush and the architect of the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq.
Jul 07 - Dilip Kumar (98 years old): One of the biggest stars of the golden age of Indian cinema.
25- Henri Verne (102 years old): Belgian writer, creator of the Bob Moran adventure book series.
August 09 - Patricia Hitchcock, 93, is the only daughter of director Alfred Hitchcock and British actress Alma Revell.
20- Raoul Coffin (82 years old): Belgian writer, author of Les Tonic Bleu picture books.
24- Hissene Habré (79 years old): a former Chadian president (1982-1990) who died of Covid in Senegal, where he was imprisoned for crimes against humanity.
24- Charlie Watts (79 years old): drummer for the Rolling Stones.
29- Jacques Rogge (79 years old): Former Belgian President of the International Olympic Committee between 2001 and 2013.
29- Lee "Scratch" Berry (85 years old): Bob Marley producer and Jamaican musician.
September 02 - Mikis Theodorakis (96 years old): music composer for the movie "Zorba the Greek" and former leftist Greek MP.
06- Jean-Paul Belmondo (88 years): One of the biggest stars of French cinema.
11- Abimal Guzman (86 years old): The founder of the "Shining Path" organization, which declared the revolutionary war in Peru.
17- Abdelaziz Bouteflika (84 years): President of Algeria (1999-2019) resigned from power under the weight of the Algerian movement and army demonstrations.
October 13 - Agnes Terup (25 years): A bronze medalist in the 10,000m race at the World Championships in Athletics was found stabbed to death by a knife at her home in Iten Training Center in western Kenya.
The Kenyan police confirmed at the time that they had begun searching for her husband, the main suspect in her murder.
18- Colin Powell (84 years): The first black US Secretary of State during the era of George Bush.
November 11 - Frédéric de Klerk, 85, the last white president of South Africa, precipitated the fall of apartheid by releasing Nelson Mandela, with whom he shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
13- Wilbur Smith (88 years): author of South African adventure novels with translation around the world.
27- Almudena Grandes (61 years old): Spanish writer and journalist.
28- Frank Williams (79 years): founder of the Williams F1 team, one of the most famous teams in the history of Formula One.
December 03 - Lamine Diack, 88, a former Senegalese long jump athlete and president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, was detained in France on corruption charges.
11- Anne Rice (80 years old): American writer of fantasy and vampire novels, including "Interview with a Vampire" (Interview with a Vampire).
12- Vicente Fernandez (81 years): The king of Mexican folk song and one of the most prominent faces of the famous "mariachi" bands.
16- Lucia Herriart (98 years old): widow of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet.
18- Richard Rogers, 88, British architect, pioneer of the "high-tech" architectural movement characterized by glass and steel designs and visible connecting tubes, and co-designer of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.
23- Joan Didion (87 years old): American writer and journalist best known for her stories about California in the 1960s.
26- Desmond Tutu (90 years): Bishop and a symbol of the struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
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